Florance v. Nixon’s Empirical Analysis
1832
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 1998
3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the allegation that [a preliminary] injunction was dissolved, is, in substance, an averment that it was wrongfully obtained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he dissolution of an injunction is prima facie evidence of the plaintiff in execution having sustained an injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.